Display-stand.



No. 741,663, V PATENTED 001?. 20, 1903.

J. 0. HEXOM & 0. G. HOUX.

DISPLAY STAND. APPLICATION FILED 11.27, 1903.

no MODEL.

ma NORRIS PErERs c'o PNDTO-LITHQ, WASHINGTON. n14} UNITED STATES JOHN G. I-IEXOM,

Patented October 20, 1903.

PATENT ()FFICE.

DISPLAY-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,663, dated October 20, 1903.

' Application filed March 27, 1903. Serial No. 149,796. (No model.)

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN C. HEXOM, residing at Decorah, in the county of Winneshiek, and CAMBRIDGE G. HoUX, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn, State of Iowa, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements tion of a box thereon being indicated in dotted outline. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view from the under side, illustrating a cross-.

shaped spider for connecting a number of the stands in a group.

In most grocery stores itis common to display fruit, crackers, and other commodities in boxes inclined against the counter or sides of the room.

In many cases it would be more desirable to set them in other parts of the store, and in any case it is necessary to move them in sweeping and at other times. This stand is designed to enable the shopkeeper to display such Wares anywhere on the floor that may be most convenient or desirable and to shift them quickly and easily from place to place whenever necessary.

The stand comprises a base A B in the form of a T and supported on three casters 0,

which are preferably of the ball type, as

a suitable height are bent and pass through the ends of a cross-bar E. Thence they extend in diverging downwardly-inclined lines and pass through the front bar of the base, and their ends are riveted over suitable washers F. To prevent splitting, the cross-bar E may be provided withrivets G. On the front bar of the base is mounted a pair of sharp spurs H, which prevent any slipping of the box when in position.

It is sometimes desirable to arrange boxes of merchandise in some central or conspicuous place in groups facing in several difierent directions. This might of course be done by setting each stand separately in place; but We have provided for the moving of the whole group at once by coupling all the stands together. The device for this purpose is'shown in Fig. 2 and is a simple cross-shaped spider I, of metal or wood,'bo1ted at J to the rearwardly-exten'ding bars of the'several bases.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I A store box-stand substantially as as:

the front bar of the base.

B. J. MCKAY, II. A. HERREID. 

